The NBA got its first taste at the new crack down on complaining in the Boston Celtics and New York Knicks game. Both sides of the argument can present their cases in this.
Amare Stoudemire believed he was fouled by Kevin Garnett and made a hand gesture indicating this should be an "and one" play because he was fouled and it wasn't called.
First, it wasn't a foul. What little contact there was, was incidental to the play. The referee made the correct non-call in this situation.
However, the referee did improperly enforce the new technical foul rule. By rule, this action should have been called as a technical foul against Stoudemire. The referee used his discretion and did not, however.
And that is how it should be.
There was nothing particularly overt about what he did, and he didn't seem to be arguing with the referee. Just from the clip, there is no way to tell if he continued the conversation however.
In the following video, watched in its entirety, the editing makes it hard to determine that a technical foul ...
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